Protein H, an Antiphagocytic Surface Protein in Streptococcus pyogenes
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Protein H, an antiphagocytic surface protein in Streptococcus pyogenes.
Surface-associated M protein is a major virulence factor in Streptococcus pyogenes which confers bacterial resistance to phagocytosis. However, many S. pyogenes strains also express additional structurally related so-called M-like proteins. The strain studied here is of the clinically important M1 serotype and expresses two structurally related surface proteins, the M1 protein and protein H. Mu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection and Immunity
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0019-9567,1098-5522
DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.4.1708-1714.1999